# Cohort One

> Cohort One is a 12-month, operator-led AI and automation incubator — not an
> accelerator, not for students. It is for founders who have already shipped an
> AI product and have early traction, and who now need distribution, retention,
> defensibility and capital. Venture-grade support: capital, an investor network,
> opt-in equity alignment, and hands-on work on evals, cost engineering,
> distribution, agents and sales. Co-founded by Daniel Wright and Jakub
> Piorkowski. Three tiers: $1k / $2k / $5k per month. Pre-launch; Cohort #1
> targeted late 2026. Contact: dw@navaigate.dev. British English throughout.

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## Start here

- [Home](https://cohort01.com/home.md): What Cohort One is, who it is for, and how to apply.
- [Programme](https://cohort01.com/programme.md): The 12-month structure, the three tiers, and what each includes.
- [About](https://cohort01.com/about.md): The founders, the thesis, and how the incubator runs.

## The programme

- [Incubator programme](https://cohort01.com/programme.md): A 12-month operator-led incubator for founders who have already shipped an AI product, run across four phases — validate and harden, margins and moat, distribution and sales, raise or compound.
- [Basic tier ($1k/month)](https://cohort01.com/programme.md): The full room, monthly partner pressure, mastermind, operator toolkit and conditional warm investor introductions.
- [Premium tier ($2k/month)](https://cohort01.com/programme.md): Deeper hands-on building time, pair-builds, a quarterly technical audit, a SAFE pathway if qualified, and more warm investor introductions.
- [Elite tier ($5k/month)](https://cohort01.com/programme.md): An invitation-only track with a weekly partner cadence, residency with both partners, co-pitching and a dedicated investor package.

## What we work on

- Distribution: finding and holding a market when SEO is collapsing behind AI answers.
- Retention and defensibility: embedding the workflow so a new model release is not an existential event, and building a moat that survives diligence.
- Evals and cost engineering: production observability, reliability and inference-cost discipline.
- Agents and sales: AI-native sales engineering, pilots, and an enterprise or PLG motion.
- Capital: data room, investor story, warm introductions and Demo Day readiness.

## For agents

- [API catalogue](https://cohort01.com/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset of our machine-readable resources.
- [MCP server card](https://cohort01.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): Discovery card describing Cohort One for the Model Context Protocol.
- [Agent Skills index](https://cohort01.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): The programme and tiers described as discoverable Agent Skills.
- [Agent registration and contact](https://cohort01.com/.well-known/auth.md): How an agent should identify itself and reach us.

## Contact

- Email: dw@navaigate.dev
- Web: https://cohort01.com
- To apply: email dw@navaigate.dev with what you have shipped, who uses it, and a link. If there is a fit, Daniel or Jakub will pick it up directly.